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Using annotative dimensions

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Using annotative dimensions

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our layouts.dwg file. And, as you can see, we're in the STAIR A layout tab, and you can see our STAIR A label, that we placed in the previous video, using an annotative text style. What we're going to have a look at now is using annotative dimensions. So, the viewport is still at 1 to 50, a scale of 1 to 50. What we're going to do now is jump back into the model tab, and you can see that we're still zoomed in on STAIR A, where we were previously, in the previous video. There's our STAIR A label. Now, if we're going to be placing annotative dimensions, using an annotative dimension style, we need to make sure that our annotation scale is, again, set in the model tab to the appropriate scale. So we check here, and we make sure that this is still at 1 to 50, to, obviously, tie in with our 1 to 50 viewport in the STAIR A layout tab. Now, we're going to change layers in the layers panel, here in the home tab on the ribbon. There is a layer available for you…

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